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"I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself."
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"The triumph can't be had without the struggle."
"Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price."
"I believe the real reason we pursue anything in life is not for the thing itself, but for who we become on the way to its accomplishment. We strive to accomplish things in the attempt to mold ourselves. The greatest benefits Jiu Jitsu will have in your life will have nothing to do with Jiu Jitsu. It is this simple understanding that allows me to persist in my study. Even on the rare days when I may not have a burning desire to practice Jiu Jitsu, I am reminded that my practicing Jiu Jitsu is more accurately my practicing to become a better human being. The lessons I learn on the mat will serve me in every area of life-- personal development, relationships, business, and the like."
"I am talking about misery and all of its implications."
"The "growing" we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as "shrinking", as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down."
"We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced."
"Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals."
"Always try to be someone of value than someone famous."
"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."
"Many of you think about your childhood and particularly about things that did not work out. Forget that and instead think of what you have achieved and what you aspire to do in the times to come.""
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
"Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak."
"The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions have killed me. What passions, it may be asked. Trifles, the most childish things in the world. Yet they affected me as much as if the possessions of Helen, or the throne of the Universe, had been at stake."
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